[FIRST TYPHOID VACCINES IN TURKEY] تيفو آشيسى / Tifo asisi [i.e. The T

[FIRST TYPHOID VACCINES IN TURKEY] تيفو آشيسى / Tifo asisi [i.e. The Typhoid vaccine]

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SALIM, TEVFIK [SAGLAM] (1882-1963).

Kader Matbaasi, Istanbul, 1922.

Original pinkish wrappers. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 88 p. Light foxing and chipping to wrappers, heavy wear to spine, internally very clean copy.

First edition of this Ottoman work documenting the author's account of administering the typhus vaccine for the first time on the Eastern and Caucasian fronts on March 15, 1915, while serving with the Ottoman army. Written after Salim's appointment as "Gülhâne Seririyât Dahiliye Muallimi" (Teacher of Clinical Instruction in Internal Medicine at Gülhâne), the book was recognized with an award from the Ottoman Medical Society.

The book also details the prices of the vaccine, the regions where the disease was prevalent at the time, the history of typhus, and accounts of the first vaccination efforts in Europe (notably in Tyrol), among other related subjects.

Military doctor Tevfik Bey successfully diagnosed a previously unknown disease, which he had first encountered while serving in Yemen. He administered the first typhoid vaccine to sick soldiers in Erzurum during the First World War on March 15, 1915.

When the Balkan War broke out in 1912, Tevfik Bey was appointed Chief Physician of the Sanitary Parade of the Salonica Redif Legion. After the war, he was assigned to the Yassıviran Menzil Hospital. Contracting typhus while on duty, he was subsequently sent to Gülhane Hospital in Istanbul for treatment.

Following the outbreak of WW1, he was deployed to Erzurum. After the Ottoman defeat against the Russian army at Sarıkamış in 1915, typhoid became one of the widespread epidemic diseases in Erzurum and its surroundings. Army Commander Hafız Hakkı Pasha fell ill with typhoid on February 3, 1915, and died ten days later. Many doctors also succumbed to the disease during this period.

Under the chairmanship of Colonel Sarıgüzelli Yusuf Ziya Bey, a group including Tevfik Salim, Haydar (Draman), Tevfik İsmail (Karagümrük), Fahri (Urdağ), Bacteriologist Dr. Server Kamil, and Fikri Bey convened and decided to use serum obtained from the blood of patients with fever as a preventive treatment. On March 15, 1915, Tevfik Bey administered the vaccine he had personally prepared to five volunteer physicians and four headquarters officers for the first time. The successful results were later published in Germany by Tevfik Salim, and the vaccine was subsequently adopted by the German army for its soldiers.

The first typhoid vaccines had been developed earlier, in 1896, by Almroth Edward Wright, Richard Pfeiffer, and Wilhelm Kolle.

Özege 21049. As of May 2024, OCLC locates only three paper copies in institutional holdings worldwide, two of which are in the UCLA Library in the United States.